Although police won’t release video they recorded, at least one of the officer’s body cameras were working, Putney said.
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The group, which appeared smaller than on previous nights, carried a banner which read: “Just Release the Tapes”.
Palmieri said Clinton planned to visit Charlotte on Sunday, Oct. 2.
The two minutes and 16 seconds of smartphone footage filmed by Rakeyia Scott, released by her lawyers to AFP and other news media, does not show the shooting itself, but captures the moments surrounding it, as she pleads with officers not to open fire.
Scott’s wife then tells her husband not to let police break the windows of the pickup truck, and begs him to “come on out the vehicle”. The family continued to urge officials to release their own recordings of the slaying.
Scott’s wife shouts, “Keith, Keith, don’t do it”, before the shots ring out. For example, if some witnesses are still being interviewed, police want the witnesses to base their accounts on what they recall, not on what they saw on police videos that were made public.
WBTV obtained a photo Wednesday that sources say shows a gun next to Scott’s body after the shooting.
The family initially contended that Scott was carrying a book, but after viewing the police video on Thursday, the family said it was “impossible to discern” what, if anything, Scott was carrying. Moments later, the video shows Scott lying face down on the asphalt surrounded by officers.
“Don’t shoot him! He has no weapon”, she can be heard telling officers as they yell at Scott, “Drop the gun!”
“A thorough investigation relies on multiple factors, and I can tell you one piece of evidence will never, ever make a good case”, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Kerr Putney told reporters Friday morning.
Putney said Friday that releasing the footage of Scott’s death could inflame the situation.
There, the video has been released and the white officer involved charged with first degree manslaughter.
Scott’s death was the latest in a string of police killings of black men in America, which have unleashed protests and riots across the country and led to global criticism of the United States’ treatment of minorities. ” she screamed. “I’m not going to come to you, I’m going to record though!”.
The shooting has set off days of protests, some demonstrators becoming violent and damaging property. The largely peaceful demonstrations in the city’s business district were watched over by rifle-toting members of the National Guard. Gunshots can be heard but not seen in her video.
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The Rev. Gregory Drumwright directed the choir of approximately two dozen, saying they wanted to be “vessels of peace, vessels of righteousness, not rage”.
